There were two moments that stuck out today. The first came in math where we were working on "Attribute Rules." Each student had either a circle, rectangle, square, triangle or hexagon. The shapes were different colors, thickness, and proportion. We were going through what a hexagon was... a shape with 6 sides and 6 corners. I proceeded to draw a hexagon, but inverted from the one the student was holding.... the chaos that ensued! "No that isn't a hexagon" "It can't be." I asked each for a thumbs up or down about whether they thought it WAS or WASN'T, and had them give reasons why... "It isn't because it doesn't have 6 sides." Count them, "One, two, hey wait a minute, it has 6 sides... and there are 6 corners." The aha moment was priceless!
The next moment was when we finally booted up the teacher workstation (cpu) that sits next to the document camera. I feel like a threshold was crossed by simply pushing the ON button. We've now got one functional, Internet ready computer in the classroom. I've also got my Stereo cable so that we can plug the computer into the speaker system (not to mention an Ipod, etc). Oh the places we'll go! (Sorry, no links today, just text!).
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